Bodhidharma Quotes
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
